The fierce peasant woman is busy farming

"That's great, Mom. I don't want the money anymore. Just use it to treat Grandpa's leg."

The two children said in unison again.

Looking at these two sensible children, Zhou Yue's eyes were slightly moist and he was very moved.

The more he talked, the more excited he became. Zhou Yue hurriedly asked Qing Mo to open a box sent by Lord Song and take out the box at the bottom, which contained a set of pens, ink, paper and inkstone.

Yang Mo came to grind the ink, Qing Mo came to spread the paper, and Zhou Yue was drawing on the paper while talking to them.

Speaking of the names of these four children, Zhou Yue even specifically asked Qian how they were chosen from the ink.

Qian said that Ning Yuan was grinding the ink when the ink was produced. He had just poured a little water on the inkstone and was about to pick up the ink stick when he heard a child crying.

His hand shook and the ink stick fell onto the inkstone, so he named the child Qingmo.

With this eldest child, the following children were named according to the circumstances.

For example, when Yuan Mo was born, Zhou Yue was working in the fields. She felt something was wrong, so she quickly notified her family and headed home.

It was born accidentally when it walked under a low wall.

A low wall is called "Yuan", so it was named "Yuanmo".

Yang Mo was named after the fact that when he was born, Ning Yuan looked up and saw a big poplar tree in front of the door with lush and verdant leaves, so he gave him the character Yang.

Xuan Mo's name was even more sloppy, and it was Ning Yuancai who helped to boil water in the kitchen.

He had never done this on a normal day. That day everyone was taking care of the woman who had just given birth, and seeing that he had nothing to do, Qian gave him the job of boiling water.

He was squatting on the ground stuffing firewood when he heard Qian shouting, "Hot water, bring hot water over here, quick, quick, Yuancai, quick..."

Ning Yuancai got anxious and immediately stood up to get a basin to scoop hot water. Maybe he had been squatting for too long, he stood up suddenly and felt dizzy, but fortunately he did not fall.

Then the fourth child was born, crying loudly, so he named the child Xuanmo, but thought Xuan didn't sound good, so he changed it to Xuan.

The three of them were drawing and chatting happily when Qian knocked on the door and called Zhou Yue over. Old Man Ning asked her to tell him something.

Zhou Yue and his two daughters looked at each other, took the most recently drawn piece of paper, and followed Qian, walking away with a clatter.

Zhou Yue followed Qian and walked into the east wing.

She saw that Old Man Ning was already sitting beside a small table on the kang with three cups of tea on it. It seemed that he was waiting for her.

Zhou Yue also happened to have something to say to Old Man Ning, so at Qian's pull, he took off his shoes, got on the kang, and sat cross-legged in front of the small table.

Old Man Ning cleared his throat gently and said seriously, "Ms. Zhou, I called you here to discuss with you the use of the reward money you received. Can I give you some suggestions?"

Are they all after her money? Let's see what he says.

Zhou Yue nodded and motioned for Old Man Ning to continue.

"I think this money is not too much, but not too little either. It would be better to divide it into two parts. Half of it can be used to buy land, so that the children can have something to rely on when they get married in the future."

Seeing that Zhou Yue had no change in expression, Old Man Ning continued:

"I want to use the other half to support Xuan'er to go to school in the county and pay his tuition for a few years.

Yuan'er has already been delayed, and Xuan'er cannot be delayed any longer.

My Ning family also had scholars in their ancestry, but who would have thought that Xuan'er's father...

I think Xuan'er is smarter than his father. If he can find a good teacher in the county, he should be able to make progress.

Let's find a way to support him for a few more years. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, forget it. We can't let us, as old people, regret it when we are buried in the future."

Old man Ning's words were so well-reasoned and Zhou Yue had no way to refute them.

His investment in his eldest son failed, and it was thought that he had given up on his children's education.

Unexpectedly, he was able to regain his spirits and wanted to try harder and invest in another round.

Zhou Yue admired him very much.

“Well, um, grandma… Dad, well, Dad, I generally agree with you.

But I'll tell you my opinion. Is that okay for you to listen to it?"

When Old Man Ning heard that she agreed with him, he was delighted, because she was his divorced daughter-in-law and no longer belonged to this family.

She has the right to dispose of the money she earned with her life. Even if she takes the money and wants to start her own business, the Ning family can't say anything.

The Dahui Dynasty was a lot more advanced than the previous dynasty. Women without husbands and parents could apply to set up their own households.

However, since the female households in these households are mostly widows or old girls who do not plan to remarry, this is not conducive to population growth.

Therefore, although the imperial court agreed to the existence of such household registration, it also stipulated that households established with female members must pay heavy taxes.

Each person had to pay thirty taels of silver, or thirty strings of copper coins.

In this dynasty, one tael of silver was exchanged for one guan of money, which was one thousand copper coins.

But among the people, the private exchange rate was one tael of silver for one thousand and fifty copper coins, while the official silver, because of its good quality, could be exchanged for one thousand and one hundred copper coins.

Thirty taels of silver is not a small amount of money. Besides, the woman is deeply influenced by the poison left over from the previous dynasty, so it is necessary for her to get married and have children.

Therefore, although this dynasty has this regulation, there are not many female households established.

Old Man Ning was thinking about Zhou Yue, and Zhou Yue was also thinking about this matter.

She really wanted to use the money to treat old man Ning's legs.

The reason why she wanted to save him so much was because of a secret in her heart.

It can also be said to be a scar that cannot be mentioned.

In her previous life, Zhou Yue was born in a remote mountain village. She had two older sisters. As the third daughter in the family, she was not well-received.

Since she was born, she has been the one who was disliked.

At one point, grandma wanted to throw her away, give her away, or even sell her.

But it didn't happen for some reasons.

Later, her grandfather heard about this and came all the way from a more remote mountain village and forcibly took her away while she was still an infant.

Grandma had passed away a long time ago, and because of this incident, Zhou Yue’s biological parents rarely interacted with grandpa.

My grandfather was also a carpenter, and one of his legs was lame due to an accident in his early years.

He dragged his crippled leg from house to house begging for milk for his granddaughter, and raised the weak Zhou Yue with great difficulty.

When she was three years old, he brought four chairs as a thank-you gift and asked the old teacher in the village to give his granddaughter a good name, Zhou Yue.

Among the many girls in the countryside named Hua, Zhen, Zhaodi and Lingdi, her name stands out from the crowd and is very eye-catching.

Later, because of her intelligence and hard work, she passed the exam and left the mountain, then went to the city to work and start a family.

But grandpa was very old, and in order to protect Zhou Yue from being harassed by her biological parents, he insisted on not moving to the city to live with his granddaughter.

She was also annoyed by her parents, her sister and her brother who used moral blackmail, and as a result, she was not willing to go back to her hometown.

Although she sent a lot of money and gifts back home every year, how could these cold things comfort the old man's pain of missing his parents?

Finally, when she received the news of her grandfather's death, it was three months after his burial.

She almost didn't catch up with Qiqi.

She held the letter written to her by the old teacher in the village and cried her heart out.

Her husband was frightened and hurriedly drove her back to his hometown.